Moses knowses the summer water surface temperature of this 175,000-sq. mile sea averages about 85 degrees

This watercraft is usually made of aluminum or fiberglass; you don't see many dug-out logs these days

An earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude on this scale releases about 32 times as much energy as a 6.0

Some speculate that this "merry old soul" of nursery rhyme fame was based on a real king of 3rd century Britain

A man's harrowing escape from torture during the Spanish Inquisition is recounted in this Poe favorite

This sea named for an explorer is the northern part of the Pacific between Siberia & Alaska

Pucker up; it's best known for inducing awkward holiday moments under a doorway.

Generations of tourists have uplift & erosion on this "stately" plateau to thank for the Grand Canyon

This shepherdess found her sheep's tails all hung on a tree to dry, so she tried to "tack to each sheep its tail, oh"

This lung disease claimed the life of Poe's 24-year-old wife

This sea has Georgia on its mind (well, its eastern side, anyway) & Bulgaria on its west

In this game you hurl metal objects at a spike 30 to 40 feet away & hopefully never yell "fore!"

Sugarloaf is one huge slab of rock rising 1300 ft. above its base; geologically, it's a granite one of these, from the Greek for "one stone"

Some say these 2 were actually Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette, who were beheaded (or broke their crowns) in 1793

In the world's first detective story, C. Auguste Dupin solves the title crimes in "The Murders" here

Delos, a small island of the Cyclades, is in this sea east of Greece

Double the reed, double the fun. It's an instrument!

This radioactive isotope is used to date rocks and other archeological finds.

It's the type of nail referred to in the nursery rhyme "All for Want of a Nail"

Spoiler alert! "The Cask of" this potent potable tells of a man sealing his enemy up behind a wall... alive!

This sea is surrounded by Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and other eastern European countries.

Leaves of this 2-word species yield a juice used in skin lotions

The explosion of a volcanic cone followed by the cone's collapse creates this bowl-shaped crater

After singing for his supper, he ate "white bread and butter"

This French "Flowers of Evil" author translated Poe's tales into French